Wood Engraving Wednesday
Early Gaylord Schanilec
Wisconsin/Minnesota wood engraver and fine-press printer Gaylord Schanilec (b. 1955) produced these wood engravings on the bookbinding process for a 1985 promotional booklet, Offcuts, printed by Gerald Lange at the Bieler Press on the work of the Campbell-Logan Bindery in Minneapolis, a bindery that both Schanilec and Lange had long associations with.
A family-owned business for three generations, the bindery was founded by Allan Campbell in 1950, passed to his son Greg Campbell in 1977, and in turn passed to his son Duncan Campbell in 2019. In 1979, Greg Campbell purchased a building for his expanded business in downtown Minneapolis that he named the Inkunabula Arts Building, which for 36 years not only housed the bindery's commercial and fine binding operations, but also provided studio space for some of America's most well-known fine printers, as well as the Cave Paper paper mill deep in the sub, sub basement of the building. The building was sold in 2017, and operations moved north to Fridley, Minn. on the northern outskirts of Minneapolis, where Duncan Campbell continues the family tradition.
Gaylord Schanilec is today a much sought after wood engraver and fine-press printer, and these engravings are his first to appear in a book. Our copy of this book is another donation from our late friend Jerry Buff (1931-2025).
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